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Greene's Grammy Speech Debunked

jonerik writes: "Today's New York Times has this article which debunks at least part of NARAS president Michael Greene's much-publicized speech at last week's Grammy Awards ceremony in which Greene claimed that he had hired three students to download a whopping 6,000 songs "from easily accessible Web sites" over two days. Leaving aside for a moment Greene's bizarre admission on national TV that he'd hired three students (at least one of whom, Numair Faraz, is a minor) to break the law (the No Electronic Theft Act), Faraz has been interviewed by the Times, saying that they spent more like three days on the project and that the other two students (both unnamed, though both are apparently attending U.C.L.A.) barely used P2P file-sharing programs at all. Instead, they used AOL's popular Instant Messenger to receive song files from friends."

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  1. Uh oh.... by The1lorax · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What do you MEAN it might be illeagal?

    --
    You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
  2. timecube says by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    evil stupid educators listen mp3
    one corner napster
    one corner
    man
    god is lie to children
    riaa is lie to god
    4 x 4 = 16 corner
    i have put sphere in cube

    1. Re:timecube says by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What you say?

    2. Re:timecube says by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Cool. Are you really the time cube guy?

      May God bless you for bringing us His great gift of the timecube.

    3. Re:timecube says by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The timecube guy wants you to visit timecube.com. He has created this web page to celebrate God's gift of the timecube.

    4. Re:timecube says by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      TimeCube is a HOAX!
      The guy that did that isn't a real Kook! He just made up some weird ass shit and pretended to be a genuine i-kook.
      Granted, it is an inspired parody.



      Part of this post is lies. Can you tell which?

  3. On the Next Episode of 90210 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land, assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion over earthly man, and made him great among the Igigi, they called Babylon by his illustrious name, made it great on earth, and founded an everlasting kingdom in it, whose foundations are laid so solidly as those of heaven and earth; then Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared God, to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers; so that the strong should not harm the weak; so that I should rule over the black-headed people like Shamash, and enlighten the land, to further the well-being of mankind.

  4. Quote by inerte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because, and I quote:

    NAPSTER BAAAAAAAD
    James Hetfield

  5. Re:6000 WOW by Bob+McCown · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    How many of those downloads were the same Britney Spears song though?

    Aren't all of her songs the same?